[pacman-dev] Bug in libalpm: sizeof(off_t)

[Allan McRae]

On 26/11/13 17:14, Jeremy Heiner wrote:
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> The curl approach is clearly overkill for the libalpm problem. Again
> you seem to be criticizing my proposal for libalpm because it fails to
> solve some other library's problem. And that still confuses me.

Can someone summarise - or link to code - for how libcurl handles this?
 Even if it is overkill, I am still looking for something cleaner than
the proposed #define/#undef approach which feels a bit hacky (even if it
works).

Allan